Prepare a case study on any of the large dams built in India showing its advantages and disadvantages for people and animals around it.
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advantages
1.They supply the water for the various means including domestic use, irrigation purposes and also for the industrial uses.
2.Dams are also involved in the hydroelectric power generation and in the river navigation
3. When used, the produced electricity by the dams does not even produce the greenhouse gases and also hence they do not pollute the atmosphere.
disadvantages
1.People residing in villages and towns in the nearby area, where there are chances of flooding, have to be relocated. They lose their businesses and farms
2.Sometimes people are removed forcibly to set up hydro-power plant and it poses a serious ethical concern.
3. building of dam results in the submergence of land and vegetation . this results in decomposition of vegetation
4. construction of large dam results in the displacement of villagers and communities . the villagers has to giveup their lands and their means of livelihood